November 13, 2008
I’m looking forward to a long weekend in sunny southern Cali. I am going to LA and San Diego for a fun-filled girl’s weekend. My twin sister Sandra is flying in from KC, my friend Aimie is flying in from San Francisco, and other friend Jeanette is driving in from San Diego. We’re just sad that Kelly is on a cruise in Florida so couldn’t make the trip with us. We plan on meeting up with my brother, shopping on Robertson, staying on Rodeo Drive, and hopefully spotting a couple celebs. Later in the weekend we are driving down to San Diego to stay at Jeanette and Jason’s new condo (with a 900 sq. foot deck overlooking downtown), having dinner on Coronado Island, and enjoying the 80 degree weather. Snow is in the forecast for Ohio and I’m happy to miss it. I’m not quite ready for a long, cold winter yet.
Jeanette, Kelly, Sandra, and Aimie
November 12, 2008
We just got back from our first trip to Raleigh, North Carolina and had a great time with all the Beals at Shelley Stock’s wedding. We both said that if we hadn’t decided to settle down in C-Town that North Carolina would have definitely been an option. It was beautiful there and Shelley and Kevin threw a great party. Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Hubal!!
November 12, 2008
Our little family loved getting out on Election Day last week. We were thrilled to enjoy 70 degree weather in November. Brownie wore her new Stars & Stripes bandanna on her walks. Momma and Daddy wore our matching red shirts to the voting polls.
November 3, 2008
We are looking forward to our first time voting in Ohio, especially because it is such a monumental election. By tomorrow evening we will either have elected our country’s first African-American President or our first Female Vice President. We are headed off to Bay Presbyterian Church tomorrow to place our votes. We are also looking forward to our free tall Starbucks coffees. If you vote, you can also go to your local Starbucks let them know you voted and get a free coffee too!
October 31, 2008
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays (along with Christmas and my birthday) so I hope everyone has a safe night and gets lots of candy!!
This has been a busy week working on our home so we are ready to enjoy the weekend. We started off by winterizing our home on Sunday afternoon. We washed and stored the patio furniture and all the window screens. It wasn’t very fun but that’s part of being a homeowner now. It was one of the last nice days of fall and good thing we did because we woke up Monday morning to the first flurries of the year and a couple hail storms. Not only did we have the builders open a wall up in our home but we also had the plumber pay us a visit and let us know the problem with our garbage disposal has been the nails that were left in there. It cost $68 for him to spend about 3 minutes picking them out but at least we didn’t need to buy a whole new disposal.
Even Brownie had a great week. She got to go to the pet store one day and picked out new toys and a new Browns/Indians winter sweater, went letterboxing with her momma and went to her first weekly daycare session at Inn the Doghouse. She has really enjoyed playing with other dogs lately so we decided that once a week she can go to daycare and play with the other 35+ dogs there.
This weekend we plan on handing out lots of candy to trick-or-treaters (we never got to do that in the city), spending time with Kurt’s sister whose visiting for the weekend as well as Kurt’s parents who are in town for a wedding, and are really looking forward to finally going to a Sunday afternoon Brown’s game and cheering on a win over Baltimore.
